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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Tuesday, February 10, 2004 One brief entry before I go off to vote--added Brad Delong to the list of political/economic sites in the sidebar. Wish I had the knowledge and the time to be as prolific as he is. The man posts whole paragraphs just about every day, and he's fast too. His comments on Bush's Meet the Press interview were online by the time I had done no more than find the transcript and begin to formulate how I wanted to respond.But I have other responsibilities too. I'm hoping to get us moved back to Stuart by the middle of the summer. We have to do a lot of work to make the trailer habitable again--the heating system doesn't even work at the moment, the refrigerator must be replaced, and I'm sure the place is over-run with mice. The driveway is going to have to be fixed so Shelley can get in and out with her truck, and the front bedroom, which I had been using, must be cleared out for Nick. Shelley and I worked out a schedule when she was home this week of what could and must be finished by a given time--driveway work done as soon as possible, one of the storage units down in Mt. Airy cleaned out enough to make room for Shelley's furniture, etc. I have about 2000 books in storage from when I had the bookstore in Stuart, many of which are not really worth keeping. But without someone's help, I never had time to go through them and dump the unsaleable ones. I also must find someone who can come in every day and check on Clarence during the times I can't be at home. He is going downhill fast, I'm afraid. I started taking him to a nephrologist a couple of years ago when he began having kidney problems, but this doctor has moved now to Christiansburg. Unfortunately, Clarence strongly resisted the idea of starting over with a new doctor. so we're driving to Christiansburg every time he needs to be seen. I don't mind doing that--it's nothing compared to the distances I drive all the rest of the time--but I think the drive itself is becoming very hard on Clarence. And while this doctor is very respected as a nephrologist, I wonder whether he is competent to treat some of the other complications of diabetes. Clarence is developing skin ulcers and the doctor's only response so far has been to prescribe an antibiotic. While that may prevent an infection from spreading, I don't think it's doing anything for the sores themselves, and I think I need to find something like an ET nurse or a wound clinic closer to home. Yet one more stress, sigh. posted by Liz @ 10:09 AM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. I welcome politely worded comments and email, my spam filter throws the rest away, so don't bother to flame me WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT' "If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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One brief entry before I go off to vote--added Brad Delong to the list of political/economic sites in the sidebar. Wish I had the knowledge and the time to be as prolific as he is. The man posts whole paragraphs just about every day, and he's fast too. His comments on Bush's Meet the Press interview were online by the time I had done no more than find the transcript and begin to formulate how I wanted to respond.But I have other responsibilities too. I'm hoping to get us moved back to Stuart by the middle of the summer. We have to do a lot of work to make the trailer habitable again--the heating system doesn't even work at the moment, the refrigerator must be replaced, and I'm sure the place is over-run with mice. The driveway is going to have to be fixed so Shelley can get in and out with her truck, and the front bedroom, which I had been using, must be cleared out for Nick. Shelley and I worked out a schedule when she was home this week of what could and must be finished by a given time--driveway work done as soon as possible, one of the storage units down in Mt. Airy cleaned out enough to make room for Shelley's furniture, etc. I have about 2000 books in storage from when I had the bookstore in Stuart, many of which are not really worth keeping. But without someone's help, I never had time to go through them and dump the unsaleable ones. I also must find someone who can come in every day and check on Clarence during the times I can't be at home. He is going downhill fast, I'm afraid. I started taking him to a nephrologist a couple of years ago when he began having kidney problems, but this doctor has moved now to Christiansburg. Unfortunately, Clarence strongly resisted the idea of starting over with a new doctor. so we're driving to Christiansburg every time he needs to be seen. I don't mind doing that--it's nothing compared to the distances I drive all the rest of the time--but I think the drive itself is becoming very hard on Clarence. And while this doctor is very respected as a nephrologist, I wonder whether he is competent to treat some of the other complications of diabetes. Clarence is developing skin ulcers and the doctor's only response so far has been to prescribe an antibiotic. While that may prevent an infection from spreading, I don't think it's doing anything for the sores themselves, and I think I need to find something like an ET nurse or a wound clinic closer to home. Yet one more stress, sigh.
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WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT'
"If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart.
THE NON-ELECTRIC HOME
Cleaning, 1 Cleaning, 2 Cleaning, 3
KNITTING BLOGS
Extravayarnza Knitting Heretic Mind of Winter Pie Knits Persistent Illusion See Eunny Knit The Keyboard Biologist Taleweaver's Ramblings TECHnitting Wendy Knits
FINISHED PROJECTS
SELF-RELIANCE AND THE FUTURE
POLITICAL BLOGS and SITES
BOOKS I'M READING
How to Grow More Vegetables, etc. Small Scale Grain Raising
ARCHIVES
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